Miami Beach Sees Rising Seas as No Threat to Real Estate Boom, For Now


Miami City’s Skyline, Through the Reflex System of a Camera. Photo courtesy of: ©Marc Martinez

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Miami Beach’s condo boom is bubbling hot, with glass towers being built as fast as they can be—even as scientists say rising seas could swamp much of the storied city by the century’s end…

Almost all of low-lying Florida’s population of just under 20 million lives crowded along its two sandy coasts. Florida is already the third most populous US state—and expects to grow as the US baby boom generation heads into retirement…

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